VUS.6 (2015) Expansion and Reform Questions

Events in Texas History

1. Migration of American settlers

2. Battle of the Alamo

3. ?

4. Entry into the Union

What event best completes this sequence?

Independence gained from Mexico

The US gained Florida from a treaty with -

Spain

"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes . . . The humble members of society - the farmers, mechanics, and laborers . . . have a right to complain of the injustice of their government." - President Andrew Jackson, 1832

According to the passage, what kind of government did President Andrew Jackson support?

Democracy

1824: Jackson loses to John Quincy Adams → Property qualifications for voting eliminated, allowing more men to vote for President → Four times as many men cote in the election of 1828 than voted in 1824. Jackson defeats Quincy Adams.

The events in this flow chart illustrate what?

The ride of the common man in American politics

One of the fundamental beliefs of Jacksonian Democracy was that -

ordinary citizens should participate in politics

What group helped Andrew Jackson become President of the United States the first time they could participate in an election?

People allowed to vote without owning property

Uprisings led by Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser contributed to the Southern states' decisions to —

pass harsh fugitive slave laws

Before the Civil War, slavery was prohibited in certain areas by the -

Missouri Compromise

In the mid-1800s, what group supported high tariffs to raise the price of imported manufactured goods?

Northern factory owners and workers

Missouri's admission to the Union started the debated over -

the balance between slave and free states

What failed to carry out the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence?

Dred Scott decision

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!" - President Abraham Lincoln, 1862

President Lincoln was speaking to -

Harriet Beecher Stowe